| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Steve Lau <stevelauc(at)outlook(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Unknown annotation '-cim' in source code |
| Date: | 2024-07-04 04:16:38 |
| Message-ID: | CAKFQuwYue-CxPqjR0-r8rKke2C43GS78tmzrZK5Q-7jZF9_t8g@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 8:46 PM Steve Lau <stevelauc(at)outlook(dot)com> wrote:
>
> While reading the source code, I noticed comments like "-cim 9/10/89". I
> think this might be an annotation by a developer to indicate the commit
> time, but from the commit history (using git), they does not seem to match.
>
It's the initials of the person who, back in 1989, wrote the preceding
comments
* Note: most of these are "incomplete" because I didn't
* need the ones not defined. More should be added
* only as necessary -cim 10/26/89
"I" == cim == ???
PostgreSQL inherited the code which is when our git history begins. This
comment was part of the original source.
I do not know the full name of the person those initials refer to.
David J.
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